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Reed Hearon (born 1957) is an American chef, cookbook author, businessperson, and restauranteur. During the 1990s dot-com bubble, he opened many notable restaurants in San Francisco, California, including LuLu, Rose Pistola, Rose's Cafe, Cafe Marimba, and the Black Cat. Hearon is known for his work with French, regional Mexican, and Ligurian cuisine cuisines.
Since 1993, Hearon co-founded a restaurant investment firm called Nice Ventures; as well as in 2001, he founded Hearon Designs, a consultancy for the food industry; and in 2011, founded a wine-focused software company called Purevin.
In his early career, Hearon worked at The Avenue restaurant in Austin, the Rattlesnake Club in Denver, and worked as a Sous-chef at Mark Miller's Coyote Café in Santa Fe. In 1988, he moved to the West Coast, in order to take over the existing Corona Bar and Grill in San Francisco, California.
Hearon appeared on the series, Julia Child: Lessons with Master Chefs, season 1.
His former restaurant Rose Pistola was awarded the James Beard Foundation Award for "Best New Restaurant" in 1997. In 2016, the San Francisco Chronicle voted LuLu as one of the most important restaurants of the San Francisco Bay Area, for their usage of new trends including the beginning of using communal table, serving family-style dishes, for being located in SoMa neighborhood (which was once a desolate area), and their use of a wood oven in the center of the dining room.
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